Being Human - Puppy Love

Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh !!  I was watching one of my favorite shows, BBC's Being Human, when all of a sudden.... Donny Osmond's beautiful voice was streaming through the TV !

As I've mentioned before, this show is about a ghost, a vampire and a werewolf that are friends and room-mates.  This year there is a new werewolf and vampire since the previous roomies died :-( but I love the new mates !

Anyway...Tom is a werewolf and met a girl, also a fellow werewolf, A-double-l-i-s-o-n as she likes to say.  Tom decides to teach her the fine art of killing the bad vampires and it seems they are a bit smitten with each other and it is PUPPY LOVE.

I couldn't find a clip with JUST that part but skip to about the 10 minute mark in the video below and listen to Donny singing Puppy Love - yeah, baby !!

Funny Friday - Lent Related

Since we are in the Lenten Season, I thought I would share this

Splash & Madison

A friend of mine has a grand daughter named Madison.  When she was born, I said - "Madison? Like in Splash?" and she looked at me like I was from Mars.  First of all I don't think she had ever heard of or seen one of my all time favorite movies "Splash".  Secondly (after I told her about it), I think she was a bit offended that I thought her daughter was named after a fictional mermaid.  But she was... rather they realized it or not.

Splash came out in 1984 and I think the weekend it was released, my friend Susan and I made a bee-line for the theater because we loved Tom Hanks (from Bosom Buddies).  We loved John Candy (from SCTV) and thought it looked like a really cute movie.  Since it was a Ron Howard movie, we had to play "spot the brother" - a game we play whenever we see a Ron Howard movie...always looking for Ron's brother, Clint Howard to appear in the movie (he does about 10 minutes in, during a bar scene).

At the time, Darryl Hannah was relatively unknown, but not after this movie - it made her a superstar !

Anyway.....during a scene in the movie, when the Mermaid is on land, Tom's character, Allen, asks her for her name.  She tells him it is hard to say in English and she says it and breaks all the TVs in the showroom (you can see a bit of it in the trailer below).

He tells her they need an easier name, they are on Madison Avenue, she looks at the sign and says "Madison".  He replies "Madison??  That's not a name!  And .... he was right, it wasn't a name. Not a first name anyway.

Facts about the name Madison:

In 1984, the year Splash was released, the name Madison did not chart as a girl's name.

In 1985, nearly 300 girls were given the name, and it entered the top 1000 chart at 628.

In 1986, 644 girls were given the name, and it jumped to 366.

And so on, and so on...In 2001, it was the #2 name for a girl.

Just look at this chart of the number of girls named Madison - see, it doesn't even start until after Splash was released ( source )

While people hearing the name from someone or somewhere else, probably caused most of its climb up the popularity ladder, it all started with a fish      ><((((º>

Funny Friday - Newsroom

Suddenly...the newsroom became strangely silent

MTV - When they showed Videos

Remember the good old days - when MTV actually showed videos?  I remember the first day of MTV.  This is how every hour was broken down

Top of the hour - MTV theme music would play and astronaut would put MTV flag on the moon, vivid colors would flash on the flag.

VJ would give you a welcome message and maybe say a few things about a band or a video then you would have several music videos

20 minutes into the hour - just some funky, swirly random images would appear for about 5 minutes

25 minutes into the hour - VJ time again

30 - 50 minutes into the hour - all music videos

50 mintues into the hour - Music News, originally told by the VJ but later Kurt Loder came along to do that

Another video or 2 then ...

Top of the hour again.

NO COMMERCIALS at all - just VJs, music news and info and videos - lots and lots of glorious music videos.  I loved all the Veejays.  Martha Quinn was probably my favorite one but I loved them all.

Very Pinteresting...

I've mentioned Pinterest before and enjoying seeing 99.9% of things that other people pin.  However about .1% of the time, I will come across something and just kind of scratch my head.  Sometimes it is the comment, sometimes it what they actually pinned.

Take this for example

"Use fitted sheets to cover box springs" - while yes, it looks nice, I'm thinking to myself, what is the point of doing that?  First of all - who sees your box springs except for you and your overnight guest and do they really care that your box spring is exposed for the few minutes they turn down the sheets and get into bed?  When you make your bed up, you don't see the box springs anyway, so why cover them with a sheet?  To me it is just one more item that has to be washed.  Why add to my household workload?

Here is another one:

Turn your toaster on its side and make grilled cheese.  Several problems with this one.  First of all, it won't be a grilled cheese, it will be toasted cheese (which taste different to me than grilled cheese).  Secondly, can't you just use your oven or toaster oven (I know not everyone has a toaster oven but IF you did).  Third, this is a fire hazard - the sides of a toaster can get pretty hot, I don't think laying it down on a wood counter top, where it could scorch your counter top is a very good idea.  May not cause a fire but would leave burn marks on your counter, why would you do that?  It isn't like it is that hard to make a grilled cheese the traditional way on the stove top and it actually would probably be just as fast or faster than using this method.

Do you want to look like you live in a million dollar home, what do million dollar homes have?  Chandeliers of course.  They are expensive though, so you can make your own...

Seriously ?? You are going to make a light fixture from plastic spoons?  First of all, no matter what you do, it is going to look like it is made from plastic spoons.  Secondly, if it gets too hot from the light bulb, the spoons will probably melt (depending on the quality of your spoons I suppose).  Also, can you see how much fun it would be to try and dust that thing, which would probably need dusting about 3 times a week?

Speaking of plastic spoons, how about a nice mirror for you?

I guess this is nicer since the spoons are painted hot pink and the vase of flowers kinds of makes the scene pretty..but like I said, no matter what you do, they still look like plastic spoons.

Now I don't mend to offend anyone that may have pinned these items.  That is fine - I'm sure I have pinned some things that make people go - what????  And like I said this is only about 0.1% of the odd stuff (in my opionion) that I see on Pinterest.  What is so funny about them too is often they have the caption underneath that says "Brilliant" !  Really? You think using a fitted sheet on a box spring is brilliant?  Einstein was brilliant, box spring sheets are not.

Rough Day

One year ago today, the girl that was always smiling, my friend, Lisa "G", lost her battle with cancer.  Two months and 5 days ago, the best dad that ever lived went to Heaven to meet G.  I'm sure that Thatcher, who left this earth 7 years, 1 month and 25 days ago met them both at the gates. 

I am feeling very sad today but I thank The Lord for them, even though they are not here with me anymore, I know I will see them again and I am so grateful that God let me live in the same time period that they did and that He let me share part of my life with them.